Culinary scraper and scourer.



G. E. SOHMIDMBR. CULINARY SGRAPER AND SOOURER. APPLICATION FILED we. a1,1909.

WITNESSES Patented N0v.-22, 1910.

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CULINARY SCRAIPER' AND SCOIIRER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 22, 1910.

Application filed August 31, 1909. Serial No. 515,476.

To all whom itmay concern:

Be it known that I, Gnone E. SCHMID'MER, a subject of the King ofBavaria, residing at Nuremberg, Germany, have invented a CulinaryScraper and Scourer, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a utensil for scouring and cleansing purposesthe said utensil being so arranged and constructed as to effectivelycleanse articles such as dishes, metal-ware and the like, regardless oftheir shape or contour.

In a device of this character, as heretofore constructed, flat metalstrips have been utilized for the purpose, but owing to the fact thatthey become entangled and form a tangled, unstable mass, they are,therefore, unsuitable for eflicient cleaning purposes and the flatstrips having projections or elevations thereon become worn and do notoperate to properly cleanse the articles.

In my present invention I have overcome such defects and inconveniencesby my novel process of forming the metal strips and securing the sametogether in a manner which at all times maintains edges and cornersprojecting from all sides, whereby the same operates in the mosteflicacious manner possible for scouring purposes.

It further consists of other novel features of construction, all as willbe hereinafter fully set forth.

For the purpose of illustrating my invention, I have shown in theaccompanying s one form thereof which is at present preferred by me,since the same has been found in practice to give satisfactory andreliable results, although it is to be understood that the variouselements of which my invention consists can and organized and that myinvention is not limited to the precise ganization of these elements asherein shown and described.

Figure 1 represents a scouring utensil embodying my invention, the samebeing shown partially completed. Fig. 2 represents a section through thesame. Fig. 3 represents be variously arranged arrangement and or-- mentthereof which a section showing another embodiment thereof.

Similar numerals of reference indicate 1 i corresponding parts in thefigures.

\ Referring to the drawings:-1 designates a strip of metal wire,preferably flat and formed into a substantial spiral by means ofwrapping the same about a mandrel or the like of angular or round shape,according to the configuration which it is desired to produce in thecompleted spiral, after which eration the mandrel is removed, leavingmetal wire bent as desired to form a spiral, each turn of which isshaped according to the form of the mandrel. Thus'in Fig. 2 the turns ofthe spiral are illustrated as formed about a rectangular mandrel Whilein Fig. 3 a modication is shown in which the coil has been formed upon around mandrel. The

spiral metal wire is then ready to receive a cord, string or the like 2which is passed through the center of the spiral and this cord ispreferably of such a length as to provide an end 3, which may be doubledback upon itself and intertwisted with the spiral wire 1 and with aportion of the cord 2. The device so formed provides edges and cornerson the metal strip projecting in all directions to secure the fullscouring effect and in use may be formed in a ball or the like, whichmay be readily worked to and into corners and crevices of the articlesin order to thoroughly cleanse the same. After a cleansing operation thedevice may be straightened out again in order to permit a thoroughdrying and cleaning of the same, ready for future use.v

It will now be apparent that I have de vised a novel and usefulconstruction which embodies the features of advantage enumerated asdesirable in the above description, and while I have in the presentinstance shown ariddescribed a preferred embodihas been found inpractice to give satisfactory and reliable results, i it is to beunderstood that the same is susl ceptible of modification in variousparticulars without departing from the spirit or scope of the inventionor sacrificing any of said cord having an end projecting exterior 1 itsadvantages. of said strip and doubled back and inter- Having thusdescribed my invention, what twisted with said metal strip and with theI claim as new and desire to secure by Letaxis portion of said cord. 5ters Patent, is:

As anew article of manufacture, a flexible GEORG SCHMIDMEB' scraperconsisting of a spirally wound metal Witnesses: strip, a cord passingthrough said strip and OSCAR Boon,

forming substantially the axis of said strip, THEODOR BEEKH.

